[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest` module

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "Benjamin Peterson" <musiccomposition at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> > Use new-style classes throughout
>> > --------------------------------
>> >
>> > The following classes will inherit explicitly from the built-in
>> > `object` type, to make all classes in the module part of the new-style
>> > type hierarchy.
>> >
>> > * ``TestResult``
>> > * ``TestCase``
>> > * ``TestSuite``
>> > * ``TestLoader``
>> > * ``_WritelnDecorator``
>> > * ``TextTestRunner``
>> > * ``TestProgram``
>>
>> They already do. __metaclass__ = type is found in unittest.py.
>
> Not in the copy I have. Is that in 3.x only, or in 2.x also?

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
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>>> import unittest
>>> isinstance(unittest.TestCase, object)
True


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